Comments for Honest 2 God http://davidbrown37.com/blog1 livin' out loud, one day at a time Mon, 21 May 2012 01:54:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 Comment on Art or Science? by karibrodin http://davidbrown37.com/blog1/?p=786#comment-399 karibrodin Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:41:00 +0000 http://karibrodin.ihostvm.com/blog1/?p=786#comment-399 Debbie, Thank you for your encouragement and for your prayers. I certainly haven't given up hope that I will eventually be completely healed, but I am trusting God regardless of whether or not I get what I want! At least, I'm trying to trust. Some days are easier than others. Kristin sent me the link to your blog but time limitations have kept me from exploring it. I look forward to checking it out soon! Thanks for stopping by! When I get my blogroll up, I'll put you on it! Debbie, Thank you for your encouragement and for your prayers. I certainly haven’t given up hope that I will eventually be completely healed, but I am trusting God regardless of whether or not I get what I want! At least, I’m trying to trust. Some days are easier than others.

Kristin sent me the link to your blog but time limitations have kept me from exploring it. I look forward to checking it out soon! Thanks for stopping by! When I get my blogroll up, I’ll put you on it!

]]> Comment on Art or Science? by Debbie http://davidbrown37.com/blog1/?p=786#comment-397 Debbie Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:31:13 +0000 http://karibrodin.ihostvm.com/blog1/?p=786#comment-397 Hi Kari, Your sister (Kristin) is a friend of mine and shared your blog with me. I've enjoyed reading through it today, but am sorry to hear of your journey with all the heart trouble. How neat that you have discovered resting in Him in the midst of uncertainty. Have prayed for you, the rest of your journey and ultimately, for God to be glorified by bringing you complete healing here on earth. I may share your blog with a couple of people I know who struggle with chronic illness and pain (diagnosed and undiagnosed). They would be encouraged by your story. God bless, Debbie Hi Kari,
Your sister (Kristin) is a friend of mine and shared your blog with me. I’ve enjoyed reading through it today, but am sorry to hear of your journey with all the heart trouble. How neat that you have discovered resting in Him in the midst of uncertainty. Have prayed for you, the rest of your journey and ultimately, for God to be glorified by bringing you complete healing here on earth. I may share your blog with a couple of people I know who struggle with chronic illness and pain (diagnosed and undiagnosed). They would be encouraged by your story.
God bless,
Debbie

]]> Comment on More Chatterbug by karibrodin http://davidbrown37.com/blog1/?p=724#comment-396 karibrodin Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:52:20 +0000 http://karibrodin.ihostvm.com/blog1/?p=724#comment-396 Ha! That's funny, Danika! I love these conversations with our little ones. They are so honest, and they don't even have to work at it, as I do sometimes! Ha! That’s funny, Danika! I love these conversations with our little ones. They are so honest, and they don’t even have to work at it, as I do sometimes!

]]> Comment on More Chatterbug by Danika http://davidbrown37.com/blog1/?p=724#comment-395 Danika Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:04:03 +0000 http://karibrodin.ihostvm.com/blog1/?p=724#comment-395 I love this story:) Here's another: the other day we got the whole house super clean (every bedroom was spotless at the same time as was the rest of the house). Some friends were coming over, and Anne-Marie said, "Mom they might think our house is like this for real!" Bless her heart! I of course assured her that these were longtime friends and were quite aware that we didn't live in a museum-like environment. I love this story:) Here’s another: the other day we got the whole house super clean (every bedroom was spotless at the same time as was the rest of the house). Some friends were coming over, and Anne-Marie said, “Mom they might think our house is like this for real!” Bless her heart! I of course assured her that these were longtime friends and were quite aware that we didn’t live in a museum-like environment.

]]> Comment on My Journey of Prayer, Part 4 (aka: Turning Points) by Elizabeth Mahlou http://davidbrown37.com/blog1/?p=718#comment-394 Elizabeth Mahlou Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:17:31 +0000 http://karibrodin.ihostvm.com/blog1/?p=718#comment-394 Interesting comment about giving things over to God, instead of asking Him to help with our agenda. I had a very dramatic experience with this a couple of years ago. I had made what could have been a career-ending mistake (even jail time if someone really wanted to press the matter) by signing off on a document without reading it thoroughly. By doing so, I had committed the US government to paying thousands of dollars, and I had no authorization to make the commitment. There needed to have been an authorization document from our resources department, and there was not, and I missed this detail. Still, I was the ultimate, responsible party. Media attention was threatened on Friday by the party not getting the thousands of expected dollars, and all ##$$&&** broke loose. I left the office not knowing what the situation would be, come Monday, but the next-higher office was clearly frightened by the whole situation. And then the day ended. Needless to say, I fretted all weekend. Of course, I asked God for help right in the beginning, and then I fretted and fretted. On Sunday, as I fretted when I should have been praying, I suddenly saw the image of the kind of rope used in a tug-of-war game, and while I saw no tuggers, I immediately understood that the rope symbolized my work problem. At the same time, I heard the words, very clearly, "Let Me have it!" I immediately stopped fretting, one side of the rope went slack, and then the image disappeared. Truly, I left the problem behind, went on peacefully with the rest of Sunday since now God really did have the problem, and on Monday went to work, still in a peaceful mood. Almost as soon as I arrived, I got a call from one of my boss's assistants who said he had been asked to come in early and work on "my" problem. In so doing, he found this major glitch in the system that could cause all kinds of unauthorized spending. It was being fixed, the party expecting payment was actually going to get paid, along with a dozen parties who were discovered to have performed services and not been paid in the past! Not only that, I was so not in trouble that I was being lauded because my mistake uncovered a serious problem with the system government-wide. I was not going to go to jail! I was not going to lose my job! I was a hero! Another example of God knowing best, of God turning bad into good, and of the fact that we can, and should, trust God with anything and everything AND NOT FRET! :) Interesting comment about giving things over to God, instead of asking Him to help with our agenda. I had a very dramatic experience with this a couple of years ago. I had made what could have been a career-ending mistake (even jail time if someone really wanted to press the matter) by signing off on a document without reading it thoroughly. By doing so, I had committed the US government to paying thousands of dollars, and I had no authorization to make the commitment. There needed to have been an authorization document from our resources department, and there was not, and I missed this detail. Still, I was the ultimate, responsible party. Media attention was threatened on Friday by the party not getting the thousands of expected dollars, and all ##$$&&** broke loose. I left the office not knowing what the situation would be, come Monday, but the next-higher office was clearly frightened by the whole situation. And then the day ended.

Needless to say, I fretted all weekend. Of course, I asked God for help right in the beginning, and then I fretted and fretted. On Sunday, as I fretted when I should have been praying, I suddenly saw the image of the kind of rope used in a tug-of-war game, and while I saw no tuggers, I immediately understood that the rope symbolized my work problem. At the same time, I heard the words, very clearly, “Let Me have it!” I immediately stopped fretting, one side of the rope went slack, and then the image disappeared. Truly, I left the problem behind, went on peacefully with the rest of Sunday since now God really did have the problem, and on Monday went to work, still in a peaceful mood.

Almost as soon as I arrived, I got a call from one of my boss’s assistants who said he had been asked to come in early and work on “my” problem. In so doing, he found this major glitch in the system that could cause all kinds of unauthorized spending. It was being fixed, the party expecting payment was actually going to get paid, along with a dozen parties who were discovered to have performed services and not been paid in the past! Not only that, I was so not in trouble that I was being lauded because my mistake uncovered a serious problem with the system government-wide.

I was not going to go to jail! I was not going to lose my job! I was a hero!

Another example of God knowing best, of God turning bad into good, and of the fact that we can, and should, trust God with anything and everything AND NOT FRET! :)

]]> Comment on The Journey of Prayer, part 3 (aka “Desperate Times Call for Desperate Prayers”) by patigorsk http://davidbrown37.com/blog1/?p=467#comment-393 patigorsk Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:59:58 +0000 http://karibrodin.ihostvm.com/blog1/?p=467#comment-393 This is absolutely perfect. Thanks a lot, I’ve been looking for something like this for a long time. This is absolutely perfect. Thanks a lot, I’ve been looking for something like this for a long time.

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